I am using the technique shown in
WebBrowser Control in a new thread
Trying to get a screen-scrape of a webpage I have been able to get the following code to successfully work when the WebBrowser
control is placed on a WinForm
. However it fails by providing an arbitrary image of the desktop when run inside a thread.
Thread browserThread = new Thread(() =>
{
WebBrowser br = new WebBrowser();
br.DocumentCompleted += webBrowser1_DocumentCompleted;
br.ProgressChanged += webBrowser1_ProgressChanged;
br.ScriptErrorsSuppressed = true;
br.Navigate(url);
Application.Run();
});
browserThread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);
browserThread.Start();
private Image TakeSnapShot(WebBrowser browser)
{
int width;
int height;
width = browser.ClientRectangle.Width;
height = browser.ClientRectangle.Height;
Bitmap image = new Bitmap(width, height);
using (Graphics graphics = Graphics.FromImage(image))
{
Point p = new Point(0, 0);
Point upperLeftSource = browser.PointToScreen(p);
Point upperLeftDestination = new Point(0, 0);
Size blockRegionSize = browser.ClientRectangle.Size;
blockRegionSize.Width = blockRegionSize.Width - 15;
blockRegionSize.Height = blockRegionSize.Height - 15;
graphics.CopyFromScreen(upperLeftSource, upperLeftDestination, blockRegionSize);
}
return image;
}
This obviously happens because of the method Graphics.CopyFromScreen()
but I am unaware of any other approach. Is there a way to resolve this issue that anyone could suggest? or is my only option to create a form, add the control, make it visible and then screen-scrape? For obvious reasons I'm hoping to avoid such an approach.
You can write
private Image TakeSnapShot(WebBrowser browser)
{
browser.Width = browser.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Width;
browser.Height= browser.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Height;
Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(browser.Width - System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.VerticalScrollBarWidth, browser.Height);
browser.DrawToBitmap(bitmap, new Rectangle(0, 0, bitmap.Width, bitmap.Height));
return bitmap;
}
A full working code
var image = await WebUtils.GetPageAsImageAsync("http://www.stackoverflow.com");
image.Save(fname , System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Bmp);
public class WebUtils
{
public static Task<Image> GetPageAsImageAsync(string url)
{
var tcs = new TaskCompletionSource<Image>();
var thread = new Thread(() =>
{
WebBrowser browser = new WebBrowser();
browser.Size = new Size(1280, 768);
WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventHandler documentCompleted = null;
documentCompleted = async (o, s) =>
{
browser.DocumentCompleted -= documentCompleted;
await Task.Delay(2000); //Run JS a few seconds more
Bitmap bitmap = TakeSnapshot(browser);
tcs.TrySetResult(bitmap);
browser.Dispose();
Application.ExitThread();
};
browser.ScriptErrorsSuppressed = true;
browser.DocumentCompleted += documentCompleted;
browser.Navigate(url);
Application.Run();
});
thread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);
thread.Start();
return tcs.Task;
}
private static Bitmap TakeSnapshot(WebBrowser browser)
{
browser.Width = browser.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Width;
browser.Height= browser.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Height;
Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(browser.Width - System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.VerticalScrollBarWidth, browser.Height);
browser.DrawToBitmap(bitmap, new Rectangle(0, 0, bitmap.Width, bitmap.Height));
return bitmap;
}
}
using (Graphics graphics = Graphics.FromImage(image))
{
Point p = new Point(0, 0);
Point upperLeftSource = browser.PointToScreen(p);
Point upperLeftDestination = new Point(0, 0);
Size blockRegionSize = browser.ClientRectangle.Size;
blockRegionSize.Width = blockRegionSize.Width - 15;
blockRegionSize.Height = blockRegionSize.Height - 15;
graphics.CopyFromScreen(upperLeftSource, upperLeftDestination, blockRegionSize);
}
Do you really need using statement ?
You also return image
but how is copied image assigned to it?